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Ivanka Trump Replies on Paid Family Leave

Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program isn’t an entitlement, it’s an investment in America’s working families.

Updated July 4, 2017 3:14 p.m. ET

In a rejoinder to your May 26 editorial “The Ivanka Entitlement” on President Trump’s family-leave proposal, Stephen Schwarzman lays out the robust business case for paid-leave policy (Letters, June 19). The Journal then uses Mr. Schwarzman’s response as a platform to make a policy distinction, to recognize the inherent value of paid leave while opposing the government’s role in administering it: “[O]ur point wasn’t to oppose family leave. The editorial opposed a government plan (“The Blackstone Entitlement,” Review &...